SOLVING SUDOKU PUZZLE with NUMBERS RECOGNIZED by USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Abstract

This paper proposed a method to solve 9×9 SUDOKU puzzles automatically. To this end, a captured puzzle

image is used, the numbers in this image are recognized by using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and a 9×9 number

array with these numbers is constituted, respectively. Then, the proposed method is applied to the prepared numerical

array for solving the puzzle. The validity of the proposed method is demonstrated with results from an example 9 × 9

SUDOKU puzzle image.

Keywords

• SUDOKU,Puzzle Solving,Artificial Neural Networks,Image Recognition,Training

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